The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow’s trading session: Before Market Opens: Economics: 8:30am ET Employment Cost Index - no Street consensus Initial jobless claims - Street Sees 520K Continuing Claims - Street Sees 5.75M Earnings: Abiomed, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABMD) – consensus loss $0.21 Abraxis BioS...

Pacer International (NASDAQ: PACR) 53.5% HIGHER; reports Q3 EPS of $0.02, 3 cents better than the analyst estimate of ($0.01). STEC, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEC) 36.2% LOWER; reports Q3 EPS of $0.50, 3 cents better than the analyst estimate of $0.47. Revenue for the quarter was $98.30 million, which compares to the estimate of $96.58 million. Sees Q4 EPS $0...

ETF Movers: HIGHER: Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) +0.7%. Up but off the day highs. Materials Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLB) +1.4%. Strength in commodity names it holds like Freeport McMoran (NYSE: FCX), Newmont (NYSE: NEM), and Alcoa (NYSE: AA). Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy (NYSE: TAN) +2.1%. Solar names reacting positive to jump in ...

UPGRADES: Wunderlich Securities upgrades Viacom (NYSE: VIA-B) from Hold to Buy. Price target increased from $31 to $34. Click Here for more color. The stock was also upgraded to Outperform at Oppenheimer and to Buy at Miller Tabak. Digital River (Nasdaq: DRIV) upgraded at to Overweight at Piper Jaffray and to Buy at Collins Stewart. Bank of Americ...

Terra Industries Inc. (NYSE: TRA) announced that its Board of Directors, with the advice of its financial and legal advisors, has carefully reviewed CF Industries Holdings, Inc.’s (NYSE: CF) latest proposal to acquire Terra for the equivalent of $24.50 in cash (which equals the net value of CF’s announced offer of $32.00 that will be r...

MOD-PAC Corp. (NASDAQ: MPAC) 93.5% HIGHER; reports Q3 EPS of $0.29, versus the $0.00 reported in the same quarter last year. Revenue for the quarter was $12.6 million, flat from Q308. STEC, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEC) 31.5% LOWER; reports Q3 EPS of $0.50, 3 cents better than the analyst estimate of $0.47. Revenue for the quarter was $98.30 million, which c...

STEC, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEC) 32.2% LOWER; reports Q3 EPS of $0.50, 3 cents better than the analyst estimate of $0.47. Revenue for the quarter was $98.30 million, which compares to the estimate of $96.58 million. Sees Q4 EPS $0.51 - $0.53, versus $0.52 consensus. Also sees Q409 sales $101 - $103 million, versus $106 million. Quality Distribution Inc. (...

Shares of Evergrande Real Estate rose as much as 20 per cent on its debut in Hong Kong, shrugging off the cool investor response to a flood of recent Chinese property offerings ...

Shares in Evolution fell 3 per cent on news that one of its big shareholders was looking to sell its stake ...

Wall Street gave up early gains in a late sell-off after the Federal Reserve reaffirmed its intention to keep rates low for an extended period ...